Beyond Bon Iver and Skylar Grey, there's plenty of inventive music in Wisconsin that's catching on, in big and small ways, beyond our fair state. In August, we drew up a list of 10 Wisconsin Bands to Watch -- from the Adam Duritz-approved Field Report to the Wallflowers-supporting Trapper Schoepp and the Shades.

Late in playwright Jon Marans' "The Temperamentals," the lead character addresses the audience, challenging the notion that the gay liberation movement began with those now-legendary 1969 riots outside a Greenwich Village bar.

"Before Stonewall," gay activist Harry Hay (Mark R. Neufang) tells us, "an even braver bunch of us stood up to the plate — before there even was a plate!" Led by Hay and his lover in Los Angeles, these brave pioneers called themselves the Mattachine Society. | March 8, 2014»Read Full Article